This is a small experiment in the blogosphere. "If you have no interest in what it's like to grow old, what follows is not for you. However, if it's going to happen to you, and the outcome is ultimately going to be negative, then finding a way to make the process as bearable, even as enjoyable as possible, might be worth a little attention."—from John Jerome's On Turning Sixty-Five

21 May 2011

New Ways of Doing Business

While driving west on Central Ave, just south of Interstate 40 (I40) in Albuquerque recently, looking for a place to stop for the night we came across this cluster of signs. We did stay here and there really is a dental office right in the main office building of the motel. I didn't ask if the dentist owned the motel or what the arrangement was.

By the way, the signs identifying this road and others as part of the original Route 66 seem to be everywhere in New Mexico. It seemed like every other exit on I40 had a little sign indicating a portion of old Route 66 was near that exit. I guess they built roads that lasted in those days. There are a few places that look like they come from the '30s or the '40s. Our connection with Route 66 has to do with a trip my Rohrschneider grandparents took from southern Wisconsin all the way to San Bernadino, California in 1926. I have some pictures of them somewhere in Arizona or New Mexico in which the road is barely recognizable. My mother Joann was about 5 years old at the time.

Downtown Billings in the SummerTime

Downtown Phoenix

Good Cheese Here

TAKE TIME FOR PARADISE

Dehler Park, Billings MT, July 2008 This is what Bart Giamatti recommends for good mental health.

Me and Joan

Early elderly and middle middle age: We May Know Something You Don't

Mrs America

Fortunately these girls had a good-looking mother

Rimrocks @ Billings MT

“In beholding old stones we may feel our anxieties about our achievements–and lack of them–slacken . . . Vast landscapes [and seascapes] can have an anxiety–reducing effect similar to ruins, for they are the representatives of infinite space, as ruins are the representatives of infinite time, against which our weak, short-lived bodies seem no less inconsequential than those of moths or spiders.”—Alain de Botton in Status Anxiety

Easter Sunday at St Patrick's Co-Cathedral

12 April 2009

Pleasant Hillside at Hustisford, AKA The Grassy Knoll for you conspiracy buffs

A Lot of Muellers Are Buried Here

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Quotes of Note

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.—Jorge Luis Borges

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams

. . . . ever since Jesus insisted that it’s easier for a camel to squeeze through a needle’s eye than for the rich to enter the kingdom of God, we’ve been frantically trying to build bigger needles and breed smaller camels!—G K Chesterton

When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.Ayn Rand.

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."—Jane Austen

"Unos dicen lo que saben y otros saben lo que dicen"—Spanish proverb

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. —Fyodor Dostevsky

Freedom is not simply the right of intellectuals to circulate their merchandise. It is, above all, the right of ordinary people to find elbow room for themselves and a refuge from the rampaging presumptions of their “betters.”—Thomas Sowell in Knowledge and Decisions

"When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting."Saint Jerome

"In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded"—Terry Pratchet

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein

"Anyone who says that man is totally depraved can't be all bad."—an unknown Calvin college professor according to Michael Novak

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good."—Thomas Sowell

"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness." —Fyodor Dostevsky

"You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Make You Odd"—Flannery O-Connor

"Dancing is a contact sport, football is a collision sport."—Vince Lombardi

"You should not look a gift universe in the mouth."—GK Chesterton

"Nor should you look a gift university in the mouth."—Russ Mueller, my brother, on viewing Ave Maria University near Naples/Fort Myers Florida

“Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on ‘income distribution,’ the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.”-Thomas Sowell

Do not do this in a half-fast way."—Joan McInnes, nee Mueller

“In beholding old stones we may feel our anxieties about our achievements–and lack of them–slacken . . . Vast landscapes [and seascapes] can have an anxiety–reducing effect similar to ruins, for they are the representatives of infinite space, as ruins are the representatives of infinite time, against which our weak, short-lived bodies seem no less inconsequential than those of moths or spiders.”—Alain de Botton in StatusAnxietyall that human hearts endure / That part which laws or kings

"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."—St Thomas Aquinas

"As no two faces, so no two cases are alike in all respects."—Sir William Osler

"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it."— H.L. Mencken

"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."—Wayne Gretzky

"Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. "—Ogden Nash